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Carpet and walls

We received the shipment of carpet tiles the other day, which means we can start picking our colors! Most people do it the other way around, but we knew we wanted carpet tiles and needed to order them, so we went backwards.


The ceiling is going a drop ceiling with black panels. Don't gasp. It's going to look gorgeous!



(This guy did black ceiling tiles with brown walls. Don't care for the color combo, but love love love the panels.)
















So as far as paint goes, we originally were looking at blues.  Especially our fav Newburyport Blue.  But we used that already... twice.  So then we went to New York State of Mind among a slew of others.  After 3 trips to the paint store to get swatches, and a pile of swatches later.....











We are trying to decide

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